Clearwisdom editor's note: Mr. Yuan Hongbin is a law expert from China, who currently resides in Australia.
The Epoch Times
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Some of the world's intellectuals who regard themselves as aloof from worldly affairs, remain silent about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong. " don't get involved in politics" and "We are impartial to the politics of the Chinese Communist Party and Falun Gong" are their favorite phrases when defending their silence.
Not long ago, the Chinese Embassy in Australia issued a statement that criticized the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese article" and Falun Gong as a "reactionary anti-Chinese political group." This is an insult to truth.
From the "politics in command" of the Mao Zedong era to the "stressing politics" of Jiang Zemin's era, the CCP has been telling the country that politics is the venue only of the CCP.
It makes clear that Chinese civilians, including Falun Gong practitioners, have all been deprived of the right to "be political," because only the party has that right. It is their privilege, just as the party has reserved the legitimization of cruelty and torture as its special privilege.
Since July 1999, Jiang and the CCP regime have utilized their political and
social resources and launched a bloody political persecution in an attempt to
exterminate the belief and practice of Falun Gong.
In this political persecution that has known no bounds, the regime as directed
by Jiang has committed and continues to commit hideous crimes of genocide and
has spared no resource to crush freedom of belief to a degree that it is
comparable to the worst dictators in history.
Facing such vast political persecution, insult, arrest, torture, targeted killing and evil propaganda, Falun Gong practitioners have tenaciously persevered in their faith.
They have employed peaceful means to resist tyranny, and have become the model of triumphant faith. They ceaselessly and tirelessly expose the evil to the world and spread the seeds of freedom of belief across many countries.
In recent years, Falun Gong's manifestation and behavior have further proven they are not only protecting their rights to freedom of belief, but also supportive of other communities whose basic human rights are attacked by tyranny.
The CCP criticizes Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful ways as "getting
political." Does that mean that turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to Jiang's
crimes should be called "not getting political"?
Is allowing, through inaction, the CCP to continue its reckless trampling of
human rights "not getting political"?
Is silence in the face of the CCP propaganda machine's fabricated and evil
rumors "not getting political"?
Falun Gong is not a political organization, but a cultivation community, and
Falun Gong has never been political since its inception.
This stems from the fact that -- from the past to the present -- Falun Gong practitioners' ideology and practice have signified that they do not have any interest in state power, and that they simply want to expose to the world the CCP's tyranny.
They only strive for a place in society where they may hold freedom of belief. The CCP's attack on Falun Gong has manifested in the political sphere. Falun Gong's response comes in the political sphere, but it is free of political goals.
When hearing those aloof intellectuals who prefer to remain on the sidelines say things like, "We don't get involved in politics; between the CCP and Falun Gong, we don't oppose or support anyone," I always feel a sense of shame for the way morality has deteriorated.
This hypocracy exposes one's innermost feelings as being without spirit, servile, selfish and devoid of courage in a just cause.
Therefore, I would like to offer words of advice to public figures in intellectual circles who do not approve of or who oppose Falun Gong: Consider the words of Voltaire, who said "Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too," which has often been paraphrased as " may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
The Chinese Embassy's statements that regard the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese article" and call Falun Gong an "anti-Chinese organization" have shamelessly made the false conclusion that the CCP and the Chinese nation are the same.
In fact, the truth of the matter is quite the opposite, considering the miserable record of the CCP, its despoiling of China's resources (not the least of which, include its people) and its horrid handling of the solemn responsibility of leadership.
History and reality have convincingly proved: The CCP is China's shame and is the most criminal regime in the entire history of the Chinese nation.
Bravely exposing the evil tyranny of the CCP is an expression of the deepest and most sincere love for the Chinese people.
Chinese version: http://epochtimes.com/gb/5/2/27/n829046.htm
